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Giulia Andrighetto is a research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (Rome, Italy). She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from La Sapienza (University of Rome). She was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, in 2010-2011. Her research is concerned with interdisciplinary studies of cognitive and social phenomena. More specifically, she is interested in explaining the emergence and evolution of social phenomena, such as social norms and punishment, by integrating empirical findings from cognitive science into a set of operational models. She uses both agent-based social simulations and laboratory experiments to test these models. Giulia will visit TiLPS from March to April 2012.

Juan M. Durán is a graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He holds a BSc. in Computer Science (2003), and a B.A. and a M.A. in Philosophy (2008), both from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Last year he was a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia (USA), studying with Prof. Paul Humphreys for his dissertation. His research interest mostly focus on philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of computer science. His dissertation, which he plans to submit in August 2012, focuses on epistemological problems of computer simulations as experimental devices. For more information, visit his webpage. Juan will visit TiLPS from February to April 2012.

Christopher French is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are in the history of philosophy of science and philosophy of science. On the one hand, he is interested in how scientific philosophers, especially Carnap, appealed to some ideal of neutrality to intervene in or dissolve foundational disputes. The question is then whether such an ideal is currently available to us and in what form. On the other, he is interested in what resources statistics and confirmation theory have for concerns about policy and society, e.g. as a way to articulate a plausible restricted ideal of a value-free science. He also has interests in the philosophy of biology. For more information, visit his webpage.